PC World Discovers Google Site Search

February 7, 2009

I was surprised to see this title in my newsreader, “Use Google to Search within One Site” here in the ecoustics.com site. The story struck me as old news, really old news. The use of the PC World logo on an audio Web site was puzzling. If you want to use site search, you may want to make sure that you use Google operators to narrow the result set; for example, site:www.gsa.gov +”Request for Information”. Keep in mind that the GOOG does not necessarily index every word on every page nor does the GOOG necessarily index every page in a Web site. Run the same query across other vendors’ indexes for maximum information happiness. Using a single search service is an invitation to miss potentially useful information.

Stephen Arnold, February 6, 2009

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Google, News, Search

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2 Responses to “PC World Discovers Google Site Search”

Frank on February 7th, 2009 1:03 pm

Steve I think it is fair to point out that the paid version of Google Site Search does allow you to submit a site map and impact the crawl timing http://www.google.com/support/customsearch/bin/topic.py?topic=16811
Stephen E. Arnold on February 7th, 2009 4:33 pm

Frank,

Yep, it is fair. Just not news to me. My wonderful son is a Google something or other. There are zippier Google activities about which a few words might warrant the $7 cover price for an issue of PC World. What do you think?

Stephen Arnold, February 7 2009

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.